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Equality and liberty

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 3, 2018November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories demagoguesTags Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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